Quotes About Reflection

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

How had I never noticed before how dear she was? How dear, in fact, was everyone in my village, and every house and tree and garden. How comforting the whisper of the wheel of the mill, the clanging of the smith's hammer, the lowing of the cattle, the laughter of the women.

Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day," he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter." "Yes," I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep." "No. It is like every morning when you wake up.

I sing just to sing it all to the surface. All the things we can't hold on to: life as it once was and isn't any longer, I guess.

your mind, not in your hand. It should get you out from the covers and into your projects as fast as possible. And it should reveal its deeper wisdom reading

Mi piace. Quando parlo con te mi sembra di essere più intelligente. Mi costringi a pensare.» «Pensare è una bella cosa» ha osservato Uman. «Pensare ci piace.» Quello che avevo detto era vero. Tutte le volte che ero con lui mi sentivo più intelligente, più acuta, più spiritosa. Mi sentivo tirata al limite. Le nostre conversazioni erano casuali, ma sotto la superficie ribolliva sempre qualcosa. Un «sottotesto», lo avrebbe probabilmente definito Uman.

Thinking is good," Uman said. "We like thinking.

Cómo puedo haber llegado hasta aquí? Se lo cuento rápido. Momento a momento.

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

The "I" in the poem is not you but someone who knows a lot about you.

Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Make me wanna hollerThe way they do my life

this saying appears in an inscription from a mosque at Fatehpur Sikri, India: "Jesus said, 'This world is a bridge. Pass over it, but do not build your dwelling there.

If they ask you, 'What is the evidence of your father in you?' say to them, 'It is motion and rest.'"93

Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you are happy. 2) But when you see your images that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will bear!

People cannot see anything that really is without becoming like it.

Don't live in a world of 'I never should have'. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at the stars.

I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions.

I can't change the past. I can't take the hurt back. But I can soften it if I can just learn how to accept it.

Sometimes people get angry and do things they shouldn't. Things they regret.

How ironic she thought, to store the past but never tend to it. ~ Mary June